The cloning crowd's ability to denigrate adult stem cell research is quickly losing steam. Check out this report that bone marrow stem cells may be pluripotent and can grow heart cells. It's not over yet, but all very encouraging. Indeed, I believe this cultural struggle will be won if and when the evidence of the efficicacy of adult stem cells in regenerative medicine becomes so convincing that even the New York Times will acknowledge it.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 9:42 PM
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Dear Mr. Smith,
I wish to comment on the entry:
"I testified alongside Dr. David Prentice in Missouri yesterday urging support of legislation that would outlaw all human cloning in the "Show Me" state. Here is a pretty fair newspaper description of the event", which does not have a dedicated comment area.
The fair newspaper description says that you "approach the issue from an "entirely secular" perspective", and then:
"Does human life have intrinsic moral value simply and merely because it is human? … If the answer to this crucial question is yes, which I believe it must be, then we will outlaw all human cloning".
Please allow me to say that your perspective, far from being "entirely secular", appears entirely taliban to me: as the statement attributed to Mr. Neaves in the article says, you are putting abstract considerations above the well-being of actual, thinking humans.
I believe your statement quoted above should be modified as:
"Does human life have intrinsic moral value simply and merely because it is human? … If the answer to this crucial question is yes, which I believe it must be, then we will do whatever is needed to save human lives".
Sincerely,
Giulio Prisco
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